# How to restore missing S3 images from post **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restore-missing-s3-images-from-post/141931 **Category:** Support **Created:** [February 18, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restore-missing-s3-images-from-post/141931 "2020-02-18T18:26:23Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![michaeld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaeld/32/1594_2.png) [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld) #### Post date: [February 19, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restore-missing-s3-images-from-post/141931/4 "2020-02-19T06:37:16Z")
You need to convert the upload:// urls into actual file names first. > [@Converting short upload URLs to full URLs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/converting-short-upload-urls-to-full-urls/131760): > > I may be barking up the wrong tree here, so apologies if I am - but any pointers very much welcome! There are some threads in our Discourse site which are displayed in part on our main website. Because the cooked version of a post contains all the HTML for the lightbox, which we don’t want on the main site, I’m working with the raw version of a post. One thing that’s tripping me up is the file upload URLs. How can I convert an upload:// URL to a full URL? I’ve tried searching and come across S… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restore-missing-s3-images-from-post/141931)._